27.07.2012 Activist detained on Independence Day

Mrs. Nina Bahinskaya, activist of the Belarusian Popular Front “Christian Conservative Party”, has been detained while displaying a white-red-white flag outside Minsk Pershamaiski District Court.

26.07.2012 Human rights activists urge Supreme Court and Prosecutor General's Office to discuss situation with illegal preventive detentions of civil society activists

Representatives of a number of leading human rights organizations of Belarus – Belarusian Helsinki Committee, Human Rights Center "Viasna", Committee for the Protection of the Repressed "Solidarity", the Centre for Legal Transformation and the Center for Human Rights – have sent a joint appeal to the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Belarus Aliaksandr Kaniuk and Chairman of the Supreme Court of Belarus Valiantsin Sukala requesting a meeting to discuss the situation with illegal preventive detentions of civil society activists and representatives of youth opposition groups, in order to put an end to this illegal practice and bring the perpetrators to justice.

26.07.2012 Journalist Vital Ruhain detained again

The journalist is expected to be tried on July 26.

25.07.2012 Victims interrogated instead of guilty ones

After complaints on the policemen, investigators interrogated not the guilty ones, but the victims.

Several young people who were forcibly detained in Minsk during a meeting with an expert on nuclear energy Georgy Lepin, complained to the prosecutor office on the illegal actions of police officers.

25.07.2012 Polish historian detained for taking photos of Lenin in Belarus

Minsk policemen and special services spent many hours interrogating art historian Krzysztof Tihan from Lublin.

24.07.2012 Euroradio reporter Vital Ruhain detained on Lithuanian border

Vital Ruhain, journalist of the Euroradio independent channel, was detained when crossing the Lithuanian border this morning, the Nasha Niva newspaper reports.

20.07.2012 Slutsk activist to stand administrative trial

Slutsk civil activist Vital Amialkovich is going to be tried on charges of violating Par. 1 Art.21.14 of the Administrative Code for allegedly posting stickers on a wall in central Slutsk.

19.07.2012 Youth activist detained in Minsk

Youth activist Mrs. Varvara Krasutskaya was detained yesterday evening in Minsk Kastrychnitskaya Square, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports, quoting Young Front member Ivan Shyla.

18.07.2012 Arrests of opponents of nuclear power plant in Minsk

Activists of an anti-nuclear campaign, who were going to convey an adress to Medvedev, are being arrested in Minsk.

17.07.2012 Police arrest opposition activist Ivan Amelchanka

Young opposition activist Ivan Amelchanka, whose stunt during an opposition march earlier this year was watched by hundreds of thousands on the Internet, was arrested again in Minsk on July 17.

17.07.2012 “Mopping-up” operation ahead of Medvedev's visit to Minsk

Opposition activists are being detained at their homes, in courts and in streets.

Ivan Amelchanka, the author of hype causing performance “Musorok”, was detained in Minsk on July 17.

The reason for the detention is unknown.

16.07.2012 Slutsk police detain civil activist

Vital Amialkovich, civil activist from the town of Slutsk, Minsk region, was detained by local police at about 12 p.m. 14 July.

16.07.2012 Opposition activist Molchan to stand trial on Monday

Andrey Molchan, an activist of an opposition group called European Belarus, will stand trial in Minsk’s Pershamayski District Court on Monday on a charge of “petty hooliganism,” his associate Maksim Vinyarski told BelaPAN.

16.07.2012 Photographer Anton Surapin detained for three days

They will check whether he is connected with the teddy bears incident.

13.07.2012 Oppositionist detained for children's coloring books

Yanina Liasneuskaya, an activist of Our Home civil campaign, was detained in Vitebsk as 11 a.m. on 13 July by Orsha police, Our Home campaign website reports.